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Cream.HR finds CMO with help from Embedded Executive Funding program
31 March 2014 | By Samantha Clark in: Featured, Startups
For a capital efficient startup like Cream.HR, hiring an executive through the Embedded Executive Funding program, can be the best way. The executives are funded through the Business Acceleration Program… Read more
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Links We Love 03.28.14
28 March 2014 | By Samantha Clark in: Featured, Small to Mid Size
Another edition of the Communitech Grow Factor Links We Love blog! This week we’ve got your medium-to-large sized business covered with news and tips that we think you should know. Read more
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Judges inspired by ASCEnt social enterprise competition
25 March 2014 | By Kayleigh Platz in: Featured, Startups
Winning first place in Waterloo Region’s newest pitch competition for social enterprises, $5,000 in cash and a year of mentorship by ASCEnt, was Edusight, an online tool for elementary and high school… Read more
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Velocity startup PiinPoint announces Y Combinator backing
24 March 2014 | By Trish Crompton in: Featured, Startups
PiinPoint received funding from Y Combinator as the seventh Waterloo Region startup to complete the prestigious California-based accelerator program. Their software, which has been likened to “Google Analytics… Read more
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M-Theory: Who needs humanity? There's an app for that . . .
20 March 2014 | By Melanie Baker in: Featured, M-Theory, Opinion
Communicating so much via WhatsApp and Instagram has stripped us of our basic humanity, made us slaves to Poe’s Law. Our Paleolithic brains can’t evolve fast enough to properly understand this tech-saturated… Read more
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Accelerator Centre graduates driving success on a global scale
20 March 2014 | By sama in: Featured
BlueRover and TrustPoint Innovations Technology Ltd., two "mature" companies, graduated from the Accelerator Centre in Waterloo. They have built their companies from the ground up with the Accelerator… Read more
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From science fiction to science fact: Hyphen Services lifts 3D printing above the hype
20 March 2014 | By trish in: Featured, Small to Mid Size
Stepping into the Christie Digital HIVE [Hub Interactive Virtual Environment] at the Communitech Hub is almost like science fiction. Still, there’s a bit of fiction surrounding the highly publicized 3D… Read more
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Opinions abound as women in tech – and a few men – launch new peer group
19 March 2014 | By Kayleigh Platz in: Featured, Small to Mid Size
New Communitech’s Women In Tech Peer2Peer initiative is launched to increase the retention and advancement of women in the industry. The inaugural session was headlined by a panel of women from the Waterloo… Read more
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Women, it's time to slip into something a little uncomfortable
14 March 2014 | By Kayleigh Platz in: Featured
In Waterloo Region, women account for more than 50% of the population. I invited Jennifer Moss, co-founder of Plasticity, Popy Dimoulas-Graham, founder of Charity Republic, and Melanie Baker, a 15-year… Read more
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Q+A with PiinPoint CEO Jim Robeson, Waterloo Region's latest YC grad
14 March 2014 | By Trish Crompton in: Featured, Startups
PiinPoint announced Monday that they are now backed by Y Combinator, and that they have raised additional investment. They will appear at YC’s Demo Day on Tuesday. We chatted with co-founder Jim Robeson… Read more